• New knowledge generation regarding important adaptations of interventions implemented in the local context.

• Improve health outcomes, particularly in underserved populations in both the U.S. and abroad.

• Successful D&I research training programs will help ensure a competent diverse D&I research workforce.

• Identification of the most effective career timing and combination (balance) of discipline-specific and trans-disciplinary courses essential to develop a cadre of trans-disciplinary implementation science researchers.

• Identified new approaches to creating partnerships with trans-disciplinary research teams that expand beyond academia and increased understanding of the unique nature of mentorship needed for this discipline.

• Experience from several other ICs can be leveraged to improve or ability to be successful and decrease our launch time.

• Field is gaining momentum because of the realization of the unsustainable economic burden of health inequities (expected to increase in the future) in the U.S.

To extend our knowledge of the pathobiology of heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders and enable clinical investigations that advance the prediction, prevention, preemption, treatment, and cures of human disease.